History Characters / CognitiveDissonance

* TheHero: The first one chosen by the Apple and given the PSI to go and collect its pieces.

* KidHero: If his Earth disguise is anything to go by, he is about the same age as Ness.

* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:When you reach the center of his mind and Niiue joins the fray, you can see his body being horribly stretched and deformed as he starts transforming into [[EldritchAbomination Giygas]]. Giegue's anguished face during the process shows just how ''painful'' it is]]

[[folder: Niiue]]

[[folder: Giegue]]

* DoomedByCanon: [[spoiler:He is Buzz Buzz, who, after letting Ness know that his presence negated the future, is squashed by Lardna Minch in ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994''.]]

* DoomedByCanon: Everyone who's played VideoGame/{{Earthbound}} [[EldritchAbomination knows what happens to him]]. This game is about how that happened. [[spoiler:Subverted in the Severance ending, where his core personality gets extracted from Giygas and later reincarnated in the real world as a baby version of himself.]]

* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Suffers from this as his Magicent-self claims that he isn't a hero. [[spoiler:His DuelBoss in Magicant represents his self-doubt.]]

* YourSoulIsMine: Implied with Nightmare Empower's flavour text, which says Niiue steals a piece of the enemy to power himself up. [[spoiler:This power can be used to rip Giegue's core out from Gigyas' insanity.]]

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:His self-doubt and conflicted emotions turn his psychic power on himself and shred apart his body and mind, leaving only Gigyas behind.]]

[[folder: Alinivar]]

* KidnappedByTheCall: He starts as an artist and aspiring musician, living an ordinary life with no PSI. Then [[spoiler:Giegue kills him, and the Apple of Enlightenment offers to return him to life in exchange for taking up its quest. Saying no leaves Alinivar to rot in a grayscale limbo until he eventually agrees, at which point the Apple revives him and bestows PSI on him to help him on his journey]].

* OctopoidAliens: Obviously, given that he is a Mook.

[[folder: Colonel Saturn]]

* BadassAdorable: Like all Mr. Saturns, he's cute in his own quirky way. Though being a Colonel, he's armed to the… nose.

* BlackbeadEyes

* HatOfAuthority: Wears a nice tophat, showing off that he's the mayor of Satralia.

* RidiculouslyCuteCritter

[[folder: Larice]]

* PsychicPowers: As stated, he learns the PK Fire line of attacks through discs and knows PK Beam when you first get him, learning the others the same way. [[spoiler:After his reprogramming by Greyface and his repairs by Niiue, he learns PK Starstorm.]]

* RayGun: He and Zarbol share use of these, from firing a multi-target beam to powerful, status-effect inducing single-target beams.
* TookALevelInBadass: Starts the game as a decommissioned basic Starman. [[spoiler:Ends it as a custom model force of destruction.]]

[[folder: Zarbol]]

* DoomedByCanon: [[spoiler:He is Buzz Buzz, who, after letting Ness know that his presence negated the future, is squashed by Lardna Minch in ''VideoGame/{{Earthbound}}''.]]

* InsectoidAlien: He is just piloting a UFO for protection, and to lift items. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, without his UFO, he's easily [[VideoGame/{{Earthbound}} squished]]…]]

* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler:The teammate who has the most self-doubt wound up being the key player to the quest's success of warning [[TheChosenOne Ness]].]]

* BodyMotifs: His tail. See the ArcWords: Who has lost his tail.

* CloudCuckooLander: He has shades of this, and is even described as such InUniverse by a Starman. When he talks during Larice's escape, he talks to the high-ranking Starmen, he goes on about how they have a set amount of time to escape… most of which has been spent on his speech about how their ship got hit.
* ClothingReflectsPersonality: Wears a human child's clothes, and acts quirky and childish to the point of nearly being a CloudCuckooLander.

* SmarterThanYouLook: Looks rather silly being a dressed up alien of Giegue's species. [[spoiler:He's pretty intelligent, knowing where to go to find a baby born with PSI, how to repair Larice when he breaks down, and knowing a lot more than he lets on about Giegue.]]

* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: He uses these kind of attacks when he isn't healing, which seems to be the power of the whole species. [[spoiler:Or so it appears…]]

* AGodAmI: While he prefers the term "Universal Cosmic Destroyer" when describing himself, his followers develop a habit of shouting, [[spoiler:"All hail the Transcending Lord!"]] as the game goes on, and he makes no objections to that. [[spoiler:Niiue seems to find it ridiculous, however.]]

* BadBoss: His treatment of [[WithDueRespect Larice]] (and possibly many other Starmen judging by the number of deactivated Starmen in the scrapping room) won't be winning Giegue any Employer of the Month awards.
* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:When you reach the center of his mind and Niiue joins the fray, you can see his body being horribly stretched and deformed.]]

* ColorMotif: Associated with crimson red. No points for guessing why.

* DoomedByCanon: Everyone who's played VideoGame/{{Earthbound}} [[EldritchAbomination knows what happens to him]]. This game is about how that happened.
** [[spoiler:Subverted in the Severance ending, where his core personality gets extracted from Giygas and later reincarnated in the real world as a baby version of himself.]]
* EldritchAbomination: He becomes one [[spoiler: due to his enhanced psychic powers tearing his physical form apart]].
** His emotions themselves begin manifesting as miniature Abominations of their own [[spoiler:as early as Chapter 4]].

* IronicDeath: At the beginning of the game he was trying to make humans more logical and remove their emotions. [[spoiler:By the end. his refusal to deal with his guilt and love for his parents destroys him.]]

* NighInvulnerability: Even if you damage him in physical form, he can easily heal himself as he accepts the insanity. [[spoiler:You can't even hurt him at all as he rips himself apart. PK Harmony just stuns him to temporarily make him regain his sanity.]]
** Averted if [[spoiler:Niiue knows Nightmare Empower or sings Maria's song to him, which allows him to be damaged]].
* PowerBornOfMadness: His PSI stems from his turbulent emotions of anger and grief. He can even heal himself by slipping into madness at will.

* PsychopathicManchild: Giegue's simplistic goal of laying waste to Earth, and possibly the rest of the galaxy, is essentially a temper tantrum caused by his anger and grief over the loss of his only family.

* TheCorrupter: Double subverted. [[spoiler:Canonically, Giegue has a habit of causing widespread poltergeist activity and influencing other life forms to grow more violent. In this game, a log entry in the prologue reveals that his psychic influence on Earth had originally been intended to make the minds of its life forms more ''logical''. He considered it a failure that his influence consistently evoked aggression, as he had been hoping to find a way to rid Earth of its "terrible curse" of emotionality, and he lamented not being given sufficient time to perfect his method. Even so, by Chapter 1, he seems to have embraced using that same imperfect influence to cause mayhem on Saturn while he seeks the Apple.]]
* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:He killed Maria under the orders of the other members of his species when George and Maria try to escape their alien prison.]]
* TorturedMonster:
--> ''"I'm… So sad…"''
* TragicVillain
* TurnsRed: [[spoiler:Survive long enough in the final battle, and his physical form dissipates into darkness… and returns as the large EldritchAbomination we all know.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: You know that his mental state isn't his finest when one of his skills is slipping into madness at will to regain PP.

* CannonCharacterAllAlong: [[spoiler:Near the end of the game, the alien piloting the UFO is revealed to be Buzz Buzz before he travels to Earth warn Ness about Giygas and start his adventure]].

* DealWithTheDevil: Inverted. The Apple Of Enlightenment, [[spoiler:a benevolent sentient being created by the people of Eris,]] revives him with PSI in return for Alivinar collecting its pieces and hearing its prophecy.

* IJustWantToBeNormal: His Magicant self expresses that he'd rather stop his adventures; his music band with his new friends is his desired life.

* PinocchioSyndrome: Implied with his choice of clothes; [[spoiler:Giegue wanted to be a real human child because of his human parents]].

* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:To even reach his sane portion, you have to use a [[Videogame/{{MOTHER1}} Magicant Shell]] and go through catastrophic emotions.]]

* WellIntentionedExtremist: His original intention for the planet was to make humans more logical so they could join his race without being burdened by emotion. Ironically, his encounter with the humans in ''VideoGame/{{Mother 1}}'' just results in his own emotions becoming more turbulent, and [[spoiler:every attempt to snuff those emotions out drives him further into madness and despair]].

* MeaningfulAppearance: His clothes may look silly on an alien, [[spoiler:but they are a symbol of how Giegue perceived himself; as George and Maria's child]].
* NiceHat: Which resembles Ninten and Ness's hats. [[spoiler:In one of the endings, his future self drops it as he fades away for Alinivar to pick up while in Giegue's mind.]]

* NiceHat: Wears a nice tophat, showing off that he's the mayor of Satralia.

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* DealWithTheDevil: Inverted. The Apple Of Enlightenment, [[spoiler: a benevolent sentient being created by the people of Eris,]] revives him with PSI in return for Alivinar collecting its pieces and hearing its prophecy.

* FromBeyondTheFourthWall: [[spoiler: In the Good end, Niiue expresses that he sensed the player help Alinivar know when to use PK Harmony.]]

* KidnappedByTheCall: He starts as an artist and aspiring musician, living an ordinary life with no PSI. Then [[spoiler:Giegue kills him, and the Apple of Enlightenment offers to return him to life in exchange for taking up its quest. Saying no leaves Alinivar to rot in a grayscale limbo until he eventually agrees, at which point the Apple revives him and bestows PSI on him to help him on his journey.]]

* UnwillingRoboticization: You can choose to [[spoiler: put Alinivar into a [[VideoGame/Mother3 chimerization]] machine, turning him into a cyborg.]]

* BadassAdorable: Like all Mr. Saturns, he's cute in his own quirky way. Though being a Colonel, he's armed to the... Nose.

* GagNose: Like all Mr.Saturns, he has a huge nose.

* StatusBuff: Most of his PSI spells involves increasing the stats of his party members and decreasing those of his enemies.

* CameBackStrong: [[spoiler: After he is lethally damaged, Niiue repairs him as the most powerful version of a Starman.]]

* StableTimeLoop: [[spoiler: His current mind traveled back into the past through Magicant, allowing him to rebel against Giegue's orders at the beginning of the game. This leads to him being decommissioned and allows him to join the party in the first place.]]

* TookALevelInBadass: Starts the game as a decommissioned basic Starman. [[spoiler: Ends it as a custom model force of destruction.]]

* UnwillingRoboticization: [[spoiler: He was once a Martian, but his people were conquered and forcibly turned into Starmen.]]

* DoomedByCanon: [[spoiler:He is Buzz Buzz, who, after letting Ness know that his presence negated the future, is squashed by Lardna Minch in VideoGame/{{Earthbound}}.]]

* FantasticRacism: [[spoiler: At the beginning of the game, is implied to have been the target of racism from Elmadan's Mooks.]]

* InsectoidAlien: He is just piloting a UFO for protection, and to lift items. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, without his UFO he's easily [[VideoGame/{{Earthbound}} squished]]...]]

After Giegue left his base of operations, his post of commander of the mothership was taken up by Niiue, a mysterious alien of the same species as Giegue. He helps the Applechasers form into a group and aids them in several ways, but there is certainly more to Niiue than he lets on...

* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: [[spoiler: In Hard Mode Niiue is attacked by Giegue's insanity in his Magicant.]] In order to complete the Giegue's ship sidequest [[spoiler: and get the Severance ending]] Niiue must run through [[spoiler: Giegue's madness attacking him on the ship alone.]]

* CloudCuckooLander: He has shades of this, and is even described as such InUniverse by a Starman. When he talks during Larice's escape, he talks to the high-ranking Starmen, he goes on about how they have a set amount of time to escape... Most of which has been spent on his speech about how their ship got hit.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Despite acting and appearing quirky and off, once he's in your party a few times you get a scope of how powerful he truly is. [[spoiler:And how much he knows...]]
* EnemyWithout: Inverted, he is [[spoiler: Giegue's good side taken physical form to combat him.]]

* FromBeyondTheFourthWall: [[spoiler: Niiue is aware of the wall, and in the Good and Bad endings will speak to the player about the help the player gave in the final battle.]]

* GoodColorsEvilColors: His eyes are blue to contrast with [[RedEyesTakeWarning Giegue's evil red.]]

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: If you [[spoiler: turn Alinivar into a chimera on Mars,]] [[WhatTheHellPlayer Niiue will question who in their right minds would make such a decision.]]
* LiteralSplitPersonality: [[spoiler: He is Giegue's conscience in corporeal form.]]
* MeaningfulAppearance: His clothes may look silly on an alien, [[spoiler: but they are a symbol of how Giegue perceived himself; as George and Maria's child.]]

* PinocchioSyndrome: Implied with his choice of clothes; [[spoiler: Giegue wanted to be a real human child because of his human parents.]]
* ThePowerOfLove: [[spoiler: He is the literal personification of Giegue's positive emotions, but primarily his love for his mother, Maria.]]

* StepfordSmiler: [[spoiler: His Magicant is slowly corrupting due to Geigue's descent into insanity]] but he keeps a pleasant and nonchalant demeanor.
* ATasteOfPower: Niiue is very powerful when he joins your party, [[spoiler: only really ending up on your level about halfway into the game.]]

* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: He uses these kind of attacks when he isn't healing, which seems to be the power of the whole species. [[spoiler:Or so it appears...]]
* YourMindMakesItReal: [[spoiler: He can get in fights with bits of Giegue's madness and takes damage from those "enemies".]]
* YourSoulIsMine: Implied with Nightmare Empower's flavour text, which says Niiue steals a piece of the enemy to power himself up. [[spoiler: This power can be used to rip Giegue's core out from Gigyas' insanity.]]

* DoomedByCanon: Everyone who's played VideoGame/{{Earthbound}} [[EldritchAbomination knows what happens to him.]] This game is about how that happened.
** [[spoiler: Subverted in the Severance ending, where his core personality gets extracted from Giygas and later reincarnated in the real world as a baby version of himself.]]
* EldritchAbomination: He becomes one [[spoiler: due to his enhanced psychic powers tearing his physical form apart.]]
** His emotions themselves begin manifesting as miniature Abominations of their own [[spoiler: as early as Chapter 4.]]
* EmotionsVsStoicism: Giegue's goal was to strip humanity of their emotions and cause them to behave completely logically. However, going back to Earth only had the effect of bringing his own suppressed emotions to the surface. His refusal to deal with those emotions constructively ends up destroying him [[spoiler:in all but one of the endings.]]

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: His self doubt and conflicted emotions turn his psychic power on himself and shred apart his body and mind, leaving only Gigyas behind.]]
* IronicDeath: At the beginning of the game he was trying to make humans more logical and remove their emotions. [[spoiler: By the end his refusal to deal with his guilt and love for his parents destroys him.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: [[spoiler: Unfortunately his heart of gold is severed from him into a LiteralSplitPersonality.]]

* MexicanStandoff: Gets into one with Niiue after the Greyface flees into the future. [[spoiler: At that point, neither Niiue or Giegue can hurt each other, so both of them simply go on their way.]]

** Averted if [[spoiler: Niiue knows Nightmare Empower or sings Maria's song to him, which allows him to be damaged.]]

* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler: He killed Maria under the orders of the other members of his species when George and Maria try to escape their alien prison.]]

--> ''"I'm... So sad..."''

* TurnsRed: [[spoiler:Survive long enough in the final battle, and his physical form dissipates into darkness... and returns as the large EldritchAbomination we all know.]]

* WellIntentionedExtremist: His original intention for the planet was to make humans more logical so they could join his race without being burdened by emotion. Ironically, his encounter with the humans in VideoGame/{{Mother1}} just results in his own emotions becoming more turbulent, and [[spoiler: every attempt to snuff those emotions out drives him further into madness and despair.]]

* WasOnceAMan:[[spoiler:Or rather, was once a Martian, before Giegue's race destroyed their civilization.]]

* GuestStarPartyMember: [[spoiler:Whenever Larice gets hijacked and malfunctions, he takes over his spot until you get to Earth, and then takes Zarbol's spot in the final battle wih Giegue.]]

* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: Uses these kind of attacks when he isn't healing, which seems to be the power of the whole species. [[spoiler:Or so it appears...]]

* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:His mindscape has several tombstones describing how different Flying Men failed him and are useless and has only two Flying Men alive. As they are the personification of one's courage, Giegue appears to have given up on life.]]

** [[spoiler: Subverted in the Severance ending, where his core personality get extracted from Giygas and later reincarnated in the real world as a baby version of himself.]]